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Romania: Rural Idyll
Эта статью также можно прочитать в русском переводе All 160 or so fifth- to eighth-graders at the school are Roma, yet none lives in the village. As Romani parents from […]
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Romania: Teaching Diversity by the Book
Эта статью также можно прочитать в русском переводе CLUJ-NAPOCA, Romania | Hamburgers are originally from the northern German city of Hamburg. Cappuccino was named after the brown-robed Italian Capuchin friars. […]
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Romania: Children Learn to Recycle Paper by Making It
BUCHAREST, Romania | On the first floor of the Romanian Peasant Museum in Bucharest, in the recently opened Cărtureşti library, lies the “Paper Book.” The book is small, with irregular […]
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Kosovo: Blind Children to Attend Regular Schools
PEC, Kosovo | Metë Thaçi, a resident of the village of Malisheva, cannot see clearly. He is not completely blind but his vision is impaired, having inherited an ocular disease […]
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Kosovo: No Playground Politics
PEC, Kosovo | The children of Brestovik, of both Serbian and Albanian ethnicity, spent most of their summer days playing together in the village schoolyard, even if they would be […]
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Kosovo: You Get What You Pay For
PRISTINA, Kosovo | Besim Gashi sits in a classroom of the Skenderbeu school, in a village in western Kosovo. Behind him, a tattered journal hangs in the corner, chronicling the […]
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Macedonia: The Politics of Incompetence
Skopje, MACEDONIA | Despite announcing bombastic plans to overhaul the education sector over the past few years, the government of Macedonia has failed to devise a comprehensive strategy that could […]
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Romania: Poor Marks for Bologna
CLUJ-NAPOCA, Romania | A week before being scheduled to defend her thesis and earn her bachelor’s degree in French and Hebrew, Anda Stefanescu has other more pressing things to worry about. […]
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Bosnia and Herzegovina: Two Schools Under One Roof
Sarajevo, BOSNIA and HERZEGOVINA | In early March 2008, the town council of Capljina, a Croat-majority town in the country’s south, announced that all Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) and Bosnian Serb […]
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Croatia: Street Smart
ZAGREB | Thousands of Croatian students who took to the streets this month to protest a new university admissions test and reforms in higher education, complaining that schools and universities […]
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